The fleet stayed at the Lighthouse Star for two days, receiving various exploration equipment from Tarrokov. The huge alloy containers were transported by ground transportation vehicles to the Black Star Legion's transport ship and stacked neatly.

These are exploration materials equipped by the empire, such as stargate equipment, fool-proof planetary fortress expansion packs, cosmic monitoring buoys used to complete star maps and provide dynamic environmental monitoring functions, etc. They are all military equipment and will not be used in regular interstellar

It circulates in the market and occasionally appears on the black market at most.

Han Xiao asked Philip to take stock, and he received approximately 500 sets of stargate equipment, 6,000 fool-proof planetary fortress expansion packs, and 15 billion cosmic monitoring buoys. They were not given to him, but borrowed mission props.

, enough to last for a while.

In addition, Tarrokov sent an imperial fleet to be temporarily integrated into the Black Star Legion to assist him in exploring the Gaolu star cluster. The commander was an officer under Tarrokov with the rank of major general named Seniko.

Tarrokov sits on the Lighthouse Star as the commander-in-chief, and each of the several imperial fleets sent has a commander. Seniko is Tarrokov's direct subordinate, and one of the imperial cadres stationed in Glittering World in Han Xiao's memory.

Somewhat impressive.

Because they are partners in the future exploration period, Han Xiao met and talked with Senico and reached a simple consensus on cooperation. Senico said that he would not interfere with the Black Star Legion's exploration plan and that they would mainly assist.

After two days of preparation, the Commander-in-Chief finally announced the official start of the operation. The fleets of all parties entrenched in the Lighthouse Star parted ways and headed for the star cluster of their choice.

The Raynor Star Cluster was explored by the War Realm and Krent, the Gaolu Star Cluster was explored by the Black Star Legion, and the Crown Ring Star Cluster was explored by the remaining imperial fleet. In comparison, the Crown Ring Star Cluster had the largest number of manpower to open up wasteland, while Gaolu Star Cluster was explored by the Black Star Legion.

Star Cluster has the least manpower.

The Black Star Legion fleet teamed up with Seneco's fleet and headed for the southernmost border system of the Gaolu Star Cluster.

Before departure, Han Xiao had informed all members of the legion’s exploration plan, including millions of players.

He put all kinds of tasks on the camp task list, including exploring planets, arranging buoys, etc., which were subdivided into different areas. There were many tasks, but each type had a limit on the number of people, which could be used by millions of legion players.

choose.

Various exploration missions have caused discussions on the forum, because the mechanism of the main mission of Glittering World is a points system, which is divided into individual points and overall points. Different exploration tasks give different points, which depend on the actual harvest. Only if they are completed

Only then did they know how many points to give. At this time, players could only guess and analyze, but they still enjoyed it.

On the forum, players generally believe that planet exploration is the most profitable in theory. There are points rewards for discovering resources, discovering life, archaeological history of the planet, and mining resources. The process is full of unknown fun.

In the eyes of players, other tasks such as arranging monitoring buoys, erecting star gates, and building stronghold transfer stations are all hard work, and currently the fewest people choose them.

Han Xiao knows that after players figure out the exploration process, guilds will begin to fight openly and secretly. The big guild hopes to use resource-rich planets as resource points for the guild. Although it can only get a small part of the total resource extraction, it only

It's equivalent to a little extra money, but based on the average wealth level of players, it's already extremely rich.

In the past life, there were two important reasons for the melee among players from all over the Glittering World, namely, faction fighting and competition for planetary resource points. But now, millions of players belong to their own camps, and there will be no faction fighting, so fighting for resource points is

is the only reason.

Han Xiao knows that in order to compete for various planets with rare resources, guilds compete fiercely, and guild wars break out frequently to seize each other's "turf". Although it has not reached that stage yet, he knows it, especially when there are people within the legion at this time.

Competition between club associations in different countries is bound to occur.

It promotes the socialization of new and old players. Another purpose is to prepare for a rainy day and minimize the impact of competition between guilds from various countries on ordinary players. It is unavoidable for ordinary players to fight against each other for fun. What he prevents is the obvious hostility between ordinary players, so it is used

Two missions to increase camp contribution encourage players from all over the world to actively make friends.

As long as there are no obvious rifts between players within the guild, guild competition will not be a loss for him. Players' equipment will have to be repaired if it is broken anyway, which will actually increase consumption.

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The fleets of all parties sailed for some days, respectively entered their predetermined positions, and officially started their respective exploration work.

The Black Star Legion exploration team came to the southernmost border system of the Gaolu Star Cluster and built the first transfer station as planned to connect to the Dawn Star Cluster.

The engineering force used a fool-proof planetary fortress expansion pack on a desolate planet on the edge of the galaxy - the transport ship opened the drop bay, and hundreds of thousands of giant mechanical bases with their own space thrusters flew out, looking like roots.

Steel Spikes - These are fortress nodes.

Fortress nodes are arranged on their own in the outer space of the planet, with the same distance between nodes, forming a large network that covers the entire planet.

Immediately afterwards, the thrusters of these fortress nodes spewed out surging orange tail flames, breaking through outer space, like hundreds of thousands of space-based gravity weapons, crashing onto the surface of the planet, all deeply inserted into the earth's crust, and rising endlessly.

of dust.

Next, all the fortress nodes are activated, with a crimson light shining from the top, and they begin to transform the planet's atmospheric environment and terrain. Each node is vibrating, bursting out shock waves, triggering rumbling earthquakes, tearing apart the underground rock layers, and pouring in

Lots of metal structures.

Silver and gray metals continuously extend from the nodes, spreading across the earth, covering the soil, turning the planet into a metallic surface. According to the preset program, these engineering alloys with nano-transformation capabilities automatically deform and assemble into bases and fortresses.

Warehouses are rising from the ground.

Dozens of hours later, the initial transformation was completed, and the yellow-black desolate planet had been transformed into a silver-gray planetary fortress, becoming the first stronghold of the Gaolu Star Cluster.

The imperial engineering ship was not idle either, dragging huge stargate parts with tractor beams and assembling the stargate next to this stronghold.

The unopened star gate looks like a huge hollow mechanical ring. After activation, the inner ring of the mechanical ring lights up blue light like an indicator light in turn, releasing space energy. According to the set coordinates, it connects to the lighthouse near the lighthouse star.

One of the star gates.

After completing the activation process, the hollow part of the mechanical ring transformed into a wormhole-like blue vortex and turned into a complete star gate.

Except for the troops who stayed to build strongholds, others dispersed. Some went to the surrounding areas to deploy space monitoring buoys, and some went to explore unknown planets.

A galaxy is divided into about ten star sectors. At this time, the Black Star Legion's large force began to explore the first star sector.

According to the plan, Han Xiao sent a task force, led by Hadaway, to act alone with one hundred and fifty sets of stargate equipment. The goal was to cross more than a dozen galaxies to the eastern part of the Gaolu star cluster and establish a long-distance stargate channel.

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The spacecraft deployed by the task force are all high-speed high-end transport ships, with a maximum warp speed of 14.1. They jump continuously at the extreme speed all the way. It takes about four months to reach the destination across such a long distance.

Once the task force establishes a long-distance stargate channel, the four-month journey can be shortened to a few hours - because it is not a direct stargate, and it has to transit in more than a dozen star systems, it will require a little extra travel time.

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Countless legion members were working together, and Han Xiao himself was not idle either. He took the main ship with a group of normal legion soldiers and legion players to conduct field exploration of a planet in the center of this star region.

——In his memory, this planet was a trade transit station in his previous life, one of the gateways to the Gaolu star cluster. It was quite valuable for mining, and it did not have an overly harsh environment. It was a livable planet, and there were people on it.

Aboriginal civilization.

Today, this planet does not have a name yet, only a number. It is a good time to occupy it in advance and develop it.

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The outer border of the Shattered Star Ring.

This is the edge of the explored universe, separated from the Shining World by a long barren cosmic belt.

A fleet of fleets left the border from different directions, turned into streams of leaping light, entered the desolate cosmic zone, and headed straight for the direction of the Glittering World.

News of the Scarlet Empire's development of the Glittering World has long spread throughout the star sea. Although the empire has explicitly banned other civilizations from entering, a piece of agreement cannot scare away the high-level forces. They all want to bypass the empire's monopoly and enter the Glittering World in advance to seize the opportunity.

These fleets are not the first group of people. They come from different civilizations and organizations. They do not want to be discovered by the empire and hide their identities.

Because he could not borrow the empire's star gate, he could only sneak to Glittering World, carrying the star gate equipment, and planned to quietly establish a secret star gate passage to avoid the empire's surveillance.

Even if these fleets have high warp speed, it will take at least a long time to cross the barren space zone and reach the Glittering World.

Most of these stowaways are motivated by profit, while a small group of people have ulterior motives.

One of them is the direct lineage personnel secretly sent by Ethereal Religion.

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(I have a cold. I slept for 11 hours. My thoughts are the same as my nose. I am not very clear. I have to pack my things tonight and have to catch a flight tomorrow morning, so the word count will be relatively less in the past two or three days. Try not to ask for leave. (
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